Home Depot customers in Jersey City report thefts from parked vehicles

Jersey City police are looking for a vehicle with Pennsylvania plates believed to be connected to the theft of $1,800 worth of construction tools from a truck parked at the Home Depot in Jersey City Wednesday morning.

The victim, a 39-year-old Pennsylvania man, told officers that the items were stolen from his van while he was shopping at the Home Depot on 12th Street between 10:40 a.m. and 11:56 a.m., a police report says.

In a similar incident on Sept. 12, police responded to the store and met a 39-year-old Jersey City man who said he got to the Home Depot about 11 a.m. and parked in the first level of the parking deck before going into the store for about 20 minutes.

The man said that when he came out the store he noticed damage to the rear door of his van and found more than $1,700 worth of tools had been taken from vehicle.

The investigation of Wednesday’s incident links a gold Nissan Quest with Pennsylvania plates to the crime, Jersey City Police Department spokesman Robert McHugh said. An investigation of a similar incident at the same store last year links a similar vehicle, he said, adding the investigations are ongoing.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Jersey City police tip line at (201) 547-JAIL.